Re: I: AUTHORS file is out of date

[Jim Meyering]

"Dmitry V. Levin" <address@hidden> wrote:
> The AUTHORS file is out of date:

Thanks for pointing that out.
I've fixed it and made this change to ensure it stays in sync
with any new changes:

2004-09-22  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * src/Makefile.am (check-AUTHORS): New rule.
        (check): Depend on it.
        * AUTHORS: Update.

Index: src/Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/cu/src/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.43
diff -u -p -r1.43 Makefile.am
--- src/Makefile.am     13 Sep 2004 13:05:08 -0000      1.43
+++ src/Makefile.am     20 Sep 2004 08:33:13 -0000
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ pm = progs-makefile
 pr = progs-readme
 # Ensure that the list of programs in README matches the list
 # of programs we can build.
-check: check-README check-misc
+check: check-README check-misc check-AUTHORS
 .PHONY: check-README
 check-README:
        rm -rf $(pr) $(pm)
@@ -242,6 +242,28 @@ check-README:
          | sed -n '/^   */s///p' | tr -s ' ' '\n' > $(pr)
        diff $(pm) $(pr) && rm -rf $(pr) $(pm)
 
+# Ensure that the list of programs and author names is accurate.
+au_dotdot = authors-dotdot
+au_actual = authors-actual
+.PHONY: check-AUTHORS
+check-AUTHORS: $(all_programs)
+       rm -f $(au_actual) $(au_dotdot)
+       for i in $(all_programs); do                    \
+         test "$$i" = '[' && continue;                 \
+         exe=$$i;                                      \
+         if test "$$i" = install; then                 \
+           exe=ginstall;                               \
+         elif test "$$i" = test; then                  \
+           exe='[';                                    \
+         fi;                                           \
+         ./printf "$$i: ";                             \
+         ./$$exe --version                             \
+           |sed -n '/Written by /s///p'                \
+           |sed 's/,\? and /, /;s/\.$$//';             \
+       done | $(ASSORT) > $(au_actual)
+       sed -n '/:/p' $(top_srcdir)/AUTHORS > $(au_dotdot)
+       diff $(au_actual) $(au_dotdot) && rm -f $(au_actual) $(au_dotdot)
+
 # Make sure we don't define any S_IS* macros in src/*.c files.
 # Not a big deal, but they're already defined via system.h.
 #